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Elena Shih seated at her desk. — Pomona Internship Leads Elena Shih ’04 to Career Focus on Human Trafficking
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James Solomon and daughter — James Solomon ’06 Wins Mayoral Election in New Jersey’s Second-Largest City
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Decoding Decisions: Kristine Cho ’21 Brings Behavioral Insights Back to Pomona
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New Federal Grants Serve Pomona College’s Mission of Service, Discovery and Connection

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Many of these awards come from programs at the National Science Foundation (NSF), with others from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other public agencies, and private philanthropic foundations.

Holden Tsai ’27 Delves into International Relations, Seeks Solutions to International Issues

Friday, September 19, 2025

Since starting at Pomona, Tsai has presented independent research on a panel discussion he organized, co-published an article, participated in a selective student conference in Japan and picked up two academic awards along the way.

Sebastian Kinzie, left, and Anji Sipkins-Chenn

Beckman Scholars Sebastian Kinzie ’26 and Anji Sipkins-Chenn ’27 Embrace 15-Month Research Journey

Thursday, September 4, 2025

Since 2023, the Beckman Scholarship has been awarded to one Pomona student who has already had significant research experience and another who has demonstrated strong promise for research.

Prof. Stephan Ramon Garcia on New Frontiers in Operators, Functions and Matrices

Thursday, August 14, 2025

Stephan Ramon Garcia, W.M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and professor of mathematics, received a $285,236 grant from the National Science Foundation last month for a project that will fund many student researchers over the next several years.

Prof. Jessica Stern holding her book Beyond Difficult

Prof. Jessica Stern’s New Book Helps Readers Deal with Difficult People

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Last month, Jessica Stern ’12 published Beyond difficult: An attachment-based guide to dealing with challenging people. Stern discusses why she wrote the book and how she hopes the content will help readers.

Prof. Lupe Bacio to Continue Her Research on COVID-19 Impact on Latino Adolescents and Caregivers Through Haynes Foundation Grant

Friday, May 9, 2025

Prof. Lupe Bacio, associate professor of psychological science and Chicana/o Latina/o studies, says her goal “has always been to try to use science and evidence-based practices to reduce inequality and inequities.”

Prof. Jonathan Lethem Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

The Guggenheim Fellowship, one of the world’s preeminent honors for scholars in the arts and humanities, will give Lethem the opportunity to revisit the backdrop of two of his finest works, Fortress of Solitude (2003) and Brooklyn Crime Novel (2023).

Prof. Preston McBride Awarded NEH Fellowship to Finish Book on Native American Boarding Schools

Thursday, March 27, 2025

What started as Prof. Preston McBride’s dissertation on Native American boarding schools became a forthcoming monograph on an understudied part of the colonization of the continent.

Exterior photo of Smith Campus Center on a sunny day

Graves Awards Support Transformative Teaching in the Humanities

Thursday, March 20, 2025

Pomona College and the American Council of Learned Societies are jointly facilitating the Graves Awards to enhance teaching in humanities-related disciplines by early-career professors.

Grant Will Support Politics Professor Erica Dobbs’ Research into Union Organizing in the American South

Monday, February 24, 2025

Erica Dobbs, assistant professor of politics at Pomona College, has received a grant of $48,036 from the Russell Sage Foundation to study the effectiveness of efforts to unionize workers in the South using the Justice for Janitors model.

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